AFL Matches at the end of 5. Commenced umpiring career with: Spencer Gulf Football League, AFL matches at the end of Commenced umpiring career with: Albury Umpires League, VFL Grand Final — Commenced umpiring career with: Sydney North juniors, National Under 18s — , and Commenced umpiring career with: VAFA, AFL Grand Final — , and Commenced umpiring career with: Eastern Football League VFL Grand Final — , , and WAFL grand final — , and Commenced umpiring career with: QAFL — Commenced umpiring career with: Eastern Football League, Commenced umpiring career with: Geelong Football Umpires League.
Commenced umpiring career with: Southern Football League, Commenced umpiring career with: Geelong Football Umpires League, AFL Grand Final — , , and Goal Umpires. The WA squad is without some key players through injury and most notably star key forward from East Perth Josh Smith with a calf strain.
Claremont pair Luke Blackwell and Trinity Handley would have been other key players, but Marc Webb and his coaching staff will be confident in the squad they have assembled to take on the Victorians.
The absence of Smith created the biggest quandary and rather than go for the option of pushing last year's Simpson Medal winner against South Australia Paul Johnson forward and have another ruckman do the bulk of the work, the selectors have gone a different route. The core of the defence line costing Magath only 12M Euros. Which manager in World Football can currently boast that?
Back in , 12M was a huge amount, but still quite cheap if you think about the spending power that teams like Bayern Munich and Stuttgart possessed.
Moving on to rest of the defence, the Wing-Backs played a crucial role in making the pressing defensive line that Magath played. Schafer especially played a key role in Wolfsburg maintaining their winning run in the Bundesliga.
He provided the assist to Dzeko in the humiliation of Bayern Munich in April , just weeks before securing the title. The side that finished second? FC Bayern by 2 points. Quite evident how important that drubbing was to the title-winning season. Sascha Reither who currently plies his trade at Schalke, was an instrumental part of the defence, featuring 28 times in the season. This Wolfsburg defence kept a strong run of 10 unbeaten games, humiliating giants such as Bayern, Bremen and the then minnows of Hoffenheim on the way to winning their first and only Bundesliga title.
Results such as against Bayern and Bremen, against Hoffenheim could not be availed with just the strong defensive line. Edin Dzeko is a known cult hero at Wolfsburg, but one player who has gone under the radar after playing a key role in the early years of his career is another Bosnian, Misimovic. The Bosnian notched 20 assists that season, a Bundesliga record which was broken recently by another Wolfsburg player — some player who goes by the name of Kevin De Bruyne.
Misimovic not only created the chances for Dzeko and his compatriot, Grafite who scored 54 goals between them that season, but he also converted chances, putting himself on the score sheet 7 times.
The attacking flair that this Wolfsburg side portrayed will always be remembered fondly by every fan of the German league. The Wolves scored 80 goals in the campaign, winning 16 out of 17 home matches. The title challenge was a success thanks to the herculean effort of the Forward duo. The Bosnian was expected to hit the ground running as always. But the striker who ran away with the limelight and the awards in was his partner in crime, Grafite. The Brazillian scored 28 goals. Unfortunately, they could not repeat the feat the following season, even with Dzeko winning the Golden Boot with 22 Goals.
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